The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PAPER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result PAPER
- Dad meets rep on return — source of news?
- One who photographs Her Majesty for The Times perhaps
- Follow and photograph Queen for publication
- Printer’s error in Standard or FT, say
- Assistant for each essay
- Couple about to copy publication
- It’s used to wrap around extremely radioactive trash
- Document? Copy deposited with letters for…
- Person only half absorbs a page in daily read?
- Primate interrupts priest’s scholarly discourse
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The straight part
We know that "source of news?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case source of news? = paper.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PAPER mean?
PAPER noun- A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
- A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- Wallpaper.
- Wrapping paper.
- (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
- A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
- A scholastic essay.
- A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- Money.
- A university course.
- A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
- A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
- A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
- Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
- (by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
- To apply paper to.
- To document; to memorialize.
- To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
- To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
- To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
- To sandpaper.
- To enfold in paper.
- To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
- Made of paper.
- Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
- Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
- Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.